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To the memory of my mother, who 
taught me to love truth, and to my wife, 
who helped me to practice it, these pages 
are dedicated by The ^Author. 



PREFACE. 



The Auto-Christ set forth in the text has no 
relevancy, except by antithesis, to the Messiah 
of Hebrew hope and Christian faith. One may be 
the anointed in many more senses than that of a 
Saviour. In truth, my Christos is an anointed 
destroyer of the divine dogma of popular self-gov- 
ernment, as taught and practiced by Saxon Chris- 
tendom. The thought of an enthroned community 
whose will, crystallized into law, should govern all 
the relations of citizenship, has ever been the bogy- 
man of autocracy. 

However well or illy I have placed my figures 
on the mind's cnnvas, I ask no favor or praise 
from any but the citizen king. To the common 
roan, to whom I am a brother, the little book is 
submitted. From him alone I shall care for com- 
mendation or blame. All others are as far be- 
neath me as the subject is beneath the sovereign. 

Mt. Vernon, Mo. j. r. s. 



CONTENTS. 



I'AGK 

CHAPTER I. 
The Grounds of Prediction 3 



CHAPTER II. 
The Grouping of Nations 32 

CHAPTER III. 

The Colonial Policy, as Affecting the Eastern 
Question 38 

CHAPTER IV. 
The Glimmerings of a Prediction 45 

CHAPTER V. 

Some Facts, Figures and Fancies Relating to the 
Destiny of the Napoleonidae 48 



Readings for the Evening Service 72 

Post -ludium 72 

Post-scriptum 72 

Appendix 74 



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CHAPTER I. 
THE GROUNDS OF PREDICTION. 

The coasts of history are strewn with the wrecks of pre- 
dictions launched by historians and philosophers.— Bryce. 

The man who so far forgets the skeptical color 
of the age as to pose as a predictor of future results 
of present scientific, political or socialistic condi- 
tions, will find himself addressing the deaf ear. 
We are such a matter-of-fact people, and we are so 
busily engaged in the vast and diversified interests 
which immediately concern our welfare, either as 
individuals or communities, that we have by busi- 
ness methods ingrained into our every relation of 
social and political life the ancient maxim, " Suf- 
ficient for the day is the evil thereof." Really wo 
have come to place little reliance, and less faith, on 
all pretended statements of prescience. And yet, 
there are conditions constantly presenting, from 
which the ordinarily intelligent person may, with 



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good degree of confidence, predict results with con- 
siderable certainty and accuracy. Thus: Knowing 
that both the House and Senate of our Congress 
are of a certain political color and the President in 
accord therewith, we may with great confidence, 
especially if public sentiment also agrees, predict 
a certain line of legislation. We may indeed al- 
most surely point out the men, who by service have 
endeared themselves to this party, that will be 
appointed to places of honor and trust. And, 
knowing the temper of our President, his Cabinet 
and the majority in Congress, we may hypothecate 
a condition of difference between our Government 
and a foreign power, and say absolutely what will 
be the course pursued relating thereto. Further : 
Should that difference relate to questions of great 
gravity, in which are involved national inter- 
ests, and perhaps the national existence of one 
or both contestants, and knowing the mental 
and moral force of our opponent, we could predict 
with tolerable certainty the settlement of the ques- 
tion with or without war. All this can be and i-, 
being done by men who make no pretension to pro- 
phetic qualifications other than purely human. 

In formulating a series of events likely to come 
to pass affecting two or more nations, strict regard 
must be had to national character and mental con- 
stitution. The stolidity of the Mongolian and the 
fire of the Latin must be carefully weighed. And 
in predicting the settling of controversies between 



THE AUTO-CHRIST. 5 

these two peoples, not the least factor in the prob- 
lem would be these characteristics of the two races. 
In collecting data for predicting future results, 
an intimate and varied knowledge of many things 
is necessary. Having under consideration the 
probable course of a nation as a participant in the 
adjustment of conflicting interests, such as are now 
disturbing Europe, we, to be correct in any meas- 
ure, must be informed as to the history of that na- 
tion for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of years. 
We must know of her ambitions and efforts ; of the 
character and direction of the same; her powers of 
recuperation, after defeats which come to all peo- 
ples in the course of their national existence. We 
must, by the light of history, watch her past deal- 
ings with her neighbors ; ascertain if these neigh- 
bors were weak or strong, and in what this weak- 
ness or strength consisted. We must know of her 
religion ; of her commerce ; of her internal policies 
and polity ? of the permanency of her prejudices, 
hopes and peculiar trend of thought and action. 
We must know, in short, if she be clever, studious, 
greedy of territory, of wealth, of show, of power ; 
if she be changeable or changeless in her loves and 
hates ; if literary or -careless of knowledge ; if per- 
sistent or erratic ; and, in fact, study her communal 
character as we would that of an individual. When 
we have thus analyzed her, and, likewise, her neigh- 
bors, and have informed ourselves of all the condi- 
tions that bear on her existence and continuance as 



G THE AFTO-dlRTST. 

a nation, and taken into full account all the point; 
of friction from contiguous communities, Ave nia< 
then formulate a prediction of her future. 1j 
like manner may we venture regarding the destiny 
of an individual ; though there be elements in this 
last not present with nations. 

By these means and others, which the nature 
of the problem will suggest, we may point with 
some accuracy to the nation, or the individual, 
most likely to be " fittest to survive," and the en- 
vironments most likely to accommodate the sur- 
vivor. 

Let us apply somewhat of the foregoing to our 
aborigines. We find them, on our first acquaint- 
ance, a wily, cunning, simple folk, whose ambition- 
grasped no more than was necessary to the gratifi 
cation of physical wants, and tribal continuance. 
Right and wrong, so far as an abstract concept was 
concerned, were entirely unknown to them. The 
individual's notion of right was limited to the idea 
of good for himself and his tribe. That broadness 
of the good which we include in the meaning of the 
word " humane," had never taught him the first 
elements of mercy. Hence, he had no compunc- 
tion for the slaughtered infants, and helpless and 
hapless aged of those who traversed his sup- 
posed right to the game or the hunting- ground. 
We find him unalterably true to the traditions 
of his ancestors, in that his enemies must be 
destroyed from the earth. His intellectual fac 



THE AUTO-CHRIST. 7 

ulties, above perception, were almost nil. Con- 
tact with civilization has proved that ages of 
restraint and instruction would have been spent 
in vain to bring him up to the level of the 
Saxon, at the time of the battle of Hastings. 
And yet, for all this, he was a proud, kind, cruel, 
ignorant human, who seemingly had readied the 
limit of his possible development, in his environ- 
ments, so long ago that he had crystallized into an 
unchangeable fixity. His low estimate of human 
life had limited his kind in number, and a plenti- 
ful supply of game had cut short his invention. 
There was no necessity for him to know more, in 
order to live ; and this lack of necessity took away 
any possibility of a foundation for intellectual ad- 
vancement. 

Take, now, into consideration, the love of lib- 
erty, coached and cultivated in the Saxon by long 
years of oppression, during and following the feu- 
dal ages, and it would have required no inspiration 
to foretell which should survive a clash of interests. 

The one great conservative force, which has 
kept China, an empire of over four hundred mil- 
lions of souls, in unprogressive status, is her relig- 
ion, which includes all the laws of state, com- 
munity and family. This religion is expressed in 
the one phrase "Ancestral Worship." And the very 
terms imply the profound filial ties which form the 
basis of national character. Such a people will 
not war with others, except in a defensive way; 



'8 THE AUTO-CHRIST. 

and one outgrowth of this defensive spirit was 
their great wall, built more than two centuries be- 
fore Christ. They, more than all others, simply 
asked to be let alone. And it was the filial cohe- 
siveness of their immense bulk, as a community, 
that preserved them until such time as national 
honor, amongst other nations, in a measure, stayed 
the grasping hand of greed. Knowing, now, the 
trend of thought and action in Russia towards an 
all-year open port, should the frozen Sclavic eye, 
restless in its icy lids, rest on China's harbors, one 
might predict that, either by diplomatic intrigue 
or actual conquest, the track of the Muscovite 
bear could be easily traced on eastern Pacific 
shores. Indeed, in subsequent pages this will be 
plainly indicated. 

Japan has long been the hermit nation. With 
a religion based on hero worship, her character has 
been developed along military lines, until, by re- 
cent contact with advanced aggressive thought, 
she is assuming the port and demeanor of a little 
giant. Her extensive coast line and comparatively 
limited territory has compelled a rapprochement, 
in late years, with dominant naval powers of the 
higher type; especially Great Britain, which, from 
commercial interests, seems to be destined as the 
strong friend of this newly clothed warrior. 
Knowing the Japanese as we do, we may say with 
surety that Saxon enterprise will receive a potent 
second from the Flowery Kingdom. And, predi- 



THE AUTO-CITKIST. 9 

eating a conflict of arms between England and 
Russia, it is not difficult to perceive an alignment 
of these two diverse powers, in opposition to Scla- 
.ic expansion. 

It has been a confusing effort to place the Ger- 
man peoples in a light by which we might judge 
of the political point to which their nation is steer- 
ing. Germany is preeminently a pyschological 
nation. Her laboratory alembic, instead of her 
clinic, forms the opinions on which she acts ; hence, 
she is ever dominated, in politics as well as religion, 
by the dictum of the higher critics. Yet, for all 
this, when confronted by the stern facts of a posi- 
tive condition, her prescriptions for national ail- 
ments are usually built up rationally, and in accord 
with a rugged honesty. And while the present 
Emperor may be somewhat intoxicated on that 
old wine labeled " The Divine Right of Kings," 
yet the German citizen, in his sober moments, will 
certainly exercise his native good sense, and main- 
lain the entente cordiale with his Saxon cousin. 
Hence, as a prediction founded on a knowledge 
)f Teutonic morals and Sclavic ambition, we may 
say that, for German favors, the Saxon holds the 
winning card. 

Rome has figured largely in the changes that 
have come in the evolution of earth's empires. 
But— 

"Rome! Rome! Thou art no more 
As thou hast been !" 



10 TUB AUTO-CHRIST. 

Going hack into the dim distance of the past, we see 
Rome as a physical giant. Noble and admirable 
in all things that pertain to the material, even her 
gods were naught bnt the iron idealism of a 
Romulus. 

The law of physical development has its lim- 
its, then comes senility, with its attendant irrita- 
bility and paralysis agitans. Snch is Rome to-day, 
including all her descendants — the Latin race. 
Prominently may be seen the mixture of the iron 
and the clay in the existence of her decaying ex- 
tremities. A people strong to great endurance, 
yet unable to govern themselves for want of cohe- 
rency. The hand of the autocrat alone can guide 
them in the accomplishment of feats for which they 
are yet capable. That guiding hand must come 
from another race than theirs. Hence, on all great 
occasions, we must look for a leader for them, 
not of their blood. The present leadership of Eu- 
rope does not contain a single prominent individ- 
ual, of the Latin race, likely to make himself felt, 
in military or diplomatic fields, when the Czar's 
proposition to disarm shall be reversed. 

Inasmuch as physical growth precedes and is 
accomplished before the mental, it would be in the 
nature of things to expect that decay of the former 
should take place in advance of the latter. And 
so it is found that literature, art and philosophy 
still remain in the memory of the children of the 
land of Plato, Aristotle, Bipamus, Syllis and 



THE A-UTO-OHRIST. 11 

"burning Sappho"; while scarce a trace of the 
gladiator in He Latine Basileia is to be found. 
And, looking to atavic laws, ever and anon may be 
expected another Hannibal or Leonidas, capable of 
segregating' forces for defense, conquest and domin- 
ion. And the prediction that such an one, of Hel- 
lenistic blood, would come forth to astonish the 
world, would not fail of verification by more than 
one or two centuries at a time. 

Some thoughts will now be offered regarding 
ihe Saxon, and that which may be asserted respect- 
ing the " sphere of influence," which destiny seems 
ro have meted and bounded only by the far-reach- 
ing demands of the universal Christian brother- 
hood of man; and its fundamental, the like exten- 
sive Fatherhood of God. Wherever the Saxon 
shoon have left their " footprints on the sands of 
time," men have bowed in worshipful reverence, 
or stood erect without fear of molestation, in the 
exercise of private judgment. Men like Hume, 
Hobbes, Gibbon and Paine have scoffed, and Wes- 
ley, Wilberforce, Watson and Raikes have prayed, 
while still the great throb of the Saxon heart hus 
synchronized with the Sermon on the Mount, with- 
out break in rhythm or loss of a beat. Spreading 
to the West, these sons of liberty clipped the in- 
quisitorial wings, and quenched the torch of 
religious proscription. Reaching to the far East, 
to the very land of the cradle of humanity, tliev 
are rehabilitating the swarthv descendants of the 



12 THE ATTTO-CHRIST. 

Son of the Sun, with a humanitarian glory thai is 
turning (lie frozen eye of Gog green with envy 
One of their number, Sergeant What 's 'is Name, 
lias placed his molding hand on kilns' head, and 
vhile he 

"Drilled a black man white, 
And made a mummy fight," 

He has raised Noph and Taphenes and Thebes to a 
place from whence they can read the Decalogue, 
in Gaelic characters, inscribed on Cheops. This 
xanthochroic renovator of the ages, turning his 
attention to the land of the unspeakable Turk, has 
planted the Roberts' School in defiance of the cres- 
cent, and sown the seeds of a better life amid the 
sickening stench of a decaying religions curse. 
Striking the Dark Continent at its extreme south- 
ern cape, he has domesticated the African calf, and 
drawn from its productive udder the rich food for 
the nourishment of millions of freemen, who, yes- 
terday, paid for a thought of liberty with the life- 
blood of slaves. His plans are now laid, and ready 
for execution, to rivet the great stones which Jere- 
miah placed in the claypits for the resting-place of 
Babylon's king, to the Cape of Good Hope, ayont 
the Equator, with a double ribbon of steel, along 
which shall speed the twentieth-century transporta- 
tion of a continent. In "ships of whirling things," 
he has sounded every depth and shoal of old ocean's 
broad expanse, and almost hung the star-spangled 
banner and union jack on each of earth's opposing 



TI1K AUTO-CHRIST. 13 

poles. He has caught the gleam of Bethlehem's 
star, and made it the woof of a royal robe for his 
youngest daughter, Columbia, whose electric span- 
gles dazzle the world. 

It is evident that the Saxon brotherhood, with 
that restlessness born of genius, is widening its 
sphere of influence more rapidly than any other 
people now on the earth. It is a safe prediction 
to assert that, unless cheeked by a force equally 
powerful as themselves,. they will, ere long, dictate 
the policy of China and Africa, as they now do of 
India. The dominion of the Latin, as upheld by 
Spain, is a thing of the past in the far East. That 
same influence will eventually Saxonize Mexico, 
Central and South America. Only one power, 
now, is strong enough to even offer a check to this 
expansion spirit of Briton and Yankee. That 
power is Russia. 

With the awakening of that ambition which 
the other powers have looked upon as dormant, the 
Sclav has shown the direction of his thoughts to he 
southward and eastward. Afghanistan and Persia 
lie in his way; Turkey also blocks his road. He 
conceives that the sphere of his influence nmst en- 
circle Palestine, necessarily for religious purposes, 
and sweep dangerously near to the Saxon sphere 
in China and India. His methods are cold, creep- 
ing, slow, like the frozen monster that he is. 

As to the Turk, we know that while he is active, 
ever loyal to his religion, and has added quite a 



14 THE AUTO-CIIUIST. 

modicum to his self-esteem in his recent Cretan 
war with Greece, he must have a mentor to show 
his kismet, and upon whom he can rely in circum- 
stances of great stress. Under all the conditions 
and mental methods which have been fastening on 
him for ages, we can not formulate for him any 
progress or elevation in the years to come. Hence, 
in all matters which may arfect him, we must ex- 
pect of him that he he a hanger-on, rather than an 
advance host, in matters of large import to Europe 
and Asia. 

As, from our point of view, there can be but 
two sides to the overwhelming question which now 
presses for solution in the Orient, we can express 
the supposed conditions in no better manner than 
tc quote from our article on the Spanish War, pub- 
lished in a local paper, last July: 

The Sclav is the human beaver. He constantly bmlds his 
dam according to worn-out and ancient methods, across the 
stream of progress, thereby forming stagnating pools of Ori- 
ental conservatism, in which humanity forever maintains a 
dead level. Tt is the destiny of the Saxon to tear out these 
obstructions to the current of human thought, straighten the 
stream of civilization, beautifying its banks with flowers of 
love, kindness and equality, and make a pleasant voyage pos- 
sible for the nation to rapidly reach the millennial ocean of the 
universal brotherhood of man. To the eye of the thoughtless 
this seems as bombast and idle dreaming. But to him who, 
student-like, looks beneath the surface for motives and ener- 
gies that form nations and wipe out boundary lines, it is more 
than a dream. Russia is constantly pushing, by diplomatic art 
and mercantile methods, her way across Asia to the rich 
treasure-troves of India. It is not best for human weal that 
Czarism should be extended, and Saxon genius knows it. 
Where duty calls in the interest of his kind, the Saxon never 



THK AUTO-CHRIST. 



15 



halts or falters. Here, then, stands face to face, in warlike 
attitude, Progress and Conservatism, personified by the Ameri- 
can Eagle and the British Liou as the first, and the Selavie 
Bear and the Mohammedan Crescent of the Osmanli- Vilayet 
as the second. 

As a reenforcement to the theory that but two 
sides present for the final adjudication of the • 
Eastern controversy, we ask to submit the entire 
following statement by an American mining engi- 
neer, Mr. W. E. Bratton, published in the Wash- 
ington Post: 

"Americans do not dream of the wonderful things that 
are going on in Russia," said Mr. W. E. Bratton, an American 
mining engineer, to a Post reporter at the Ebbitt. 

"I have been in Siberia for a year in the interest of a 
London company, and while in the Czar's dominion £ found out 
enough to make me absolutely certain that the Russians con- 
template the execution of the most gigantic scheme of terri- 
torial absorption ever undertaken by any race on this earth. 
There is no limit to their ambition, and the idea of failure in 
their plans : s not conceivable. To begin with, the will of the 
Russian people is absolute, and not the caprice of the Czar, as 
most of our countrymen are apt to think. The Czar can no 
more go contrai-y to public opinion in his empire than the Pres- 
ident of the United States can defy the wishes of the America-i 
people. 

"In a long talk with a high Russian official, last summer, 
he outlined to me the national program. Among other things 
he said: 'The great belt of open country lying between the 
Ural Mountains and the Pacific Ocean, and included within 
the north temperate zone, is going to be thrown open for settle- 
ment. It will be a breeding-ground for millions of our race. 
We will rear countless numbers of men and women, and half 
the men will be trained for war. We will be able by that time 
to put more soldiers in the field than all the rest of Europe put 
together. When this condition arrives, what power or what 
combination of powers will be able to stop us ? America will 
be our only rival, but between us and the great republic across 
the sea there will be no clash, for she will be supreme in hex 



16 TIFK AUTO-CHRIST. 

quarter of the worttl, as we will be in Europe and Central 
Asia. 

" ' We are satisfied with present home conditions, but 
just as soon as the opportune time comes, we will, without 
bloodshed or revolution, dispense with the Czar, and have a 
representative government Look now at the condition of 
Europe; there are really but four leading Powers— Russia, 
England, Germany aud Prance France is fast disappearing 
as a factor in the situation, for either she will go to the wall 
through some crisis, like that now threatening her, or by the 
sure process of internal decay. England will then seize upon 
all her territorial possessions. In a quarter of a century from 
now, France will be of no more consequence than Spain is to- 
day. Then Germany will be left between England and Russia, 
and Germany, too, will be unable to stand the test of the sur- 
vival of the fittest. I don't say these things will occur in a 
few years, but a century is nothing in the history of na- 
tions. 

•• ' Now, then, what have we left but a fight to the finish 
between the Sclav and the Anglo-Saxon? After all, racial 
antipathy is at the bottom of the strife. The Russian despises 
the Briton, and the hatred is returned with vengeance. In the 
long run we shall beat England. We will do it by the sheer 
force of numbers, if through no other means. England cau 
continue to boast of her supremacy on the seas but it means 
comparatively little there, for we will shut her out of all East- 
ern ports, and by land she will no more compare with us than 
a pigmy with a giant. 

•''See what we have already done in the acquisition of 
Turkestan, Manchuria and Mongolia. As sure as fate, China — 
not a part, but all of it— will, in no distant time, be an inte- 
gral part of the great Russian Empire. There is no human 
power that can stop us. Our Siberian Railroad is but the be- 
ginning of a system of railway lines that will penetrate every 
part of China, and will make our hold on that country perma- 
nent. And T can tell you still more. Russia does n't want any 
outsiders in China, or any other part of her Asiatic dominions, 
and when the time comes she will say to England and to Ger- 
many, and even to the United States, this territory is exclu- 
sively for us ; we do not mean to be rude, but, gentlemen, you 
must get out. And get out they will, for with all the railways 
in our possession, and with a million of soldiers, who will op- 
pose us V 



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"This Is only a small part of what my Russian friend 
told me; but before I left the country 1 talked with other high- 
class men, and everyone confirmed his statements. My own 
judgment is that there is nothing improbable or visionary in 
the program. I think that Kussia is as certain to dominate 
Asia as we are to rule this continent. The Englishmen I met 
abroad are certain that ultimately they have got to fight Kus- 
sia, for the Sclav is not going to be satisfied with Korea, China, 
Persia and the rest; he has pushed his iron highway within 
seventy-five miles of the Indian frontier, and dreams of the 
day when he will strip .lohn Bull of all his possessions there. 
This he can do just as easily as we could take Canada, for the 
geographical situation is almost identical." 

The above statement of Mr. Bratton came to 
our knowledge after our MS. had been completed 
and ready for the publisher. We the more cheer- 
fully rearrange our pages for the reason given 
above, and for the further reason that it sustains 
our opinion of Czar Nicholas and the Russian peo- 
ple, given in a subsequent page. This opinion the 
reader will find expressed in the following words: 
" He [the Czar] is believed to be conscientiously 
committed to the betterment of Russia, within 
monarchical limits; and is only pressed to the fore, 
in China and the East, because Sclavic thought 
demands expansion to counteract supposed Saxon 
land-hunger," etc. We believe the final conflict 
between Russia and Saxondom will come much ear- 
lier in the future than Mr. Bratton supposes. 
Probably 1920, A. D., will see the end of it, 

That which has been said of Turkey in a great, 
measure applies to Italy, Portugal, Spain, Hun- 
gary and Austria. It is very evident that, with 
these nations, Russia is looked to for a leader. 



18 TirB AUTO-CHRIST. 

But there is yet a nation, from whose individ- 
ual citizens, and kindred outside blood, much may 
be expected, when the dogs of Avar are let loose in 
earnest. Our estimate of the Greek is given above, 
and to him we now refer. It will appear what 
may be expected from him when in our last chap- 
ter he is brought on as the fancied Auto-Christ. 

Still another factor, in this relation, must be 
taken note of, more as a catalytic than a prominent 
participant. Reference is he. - had to those people 
who have been " scattered and peeled " for more 
than twenty-five hundred years; to-wit, the Jews. 
In estimating the influence of Judaism on civili- 
zation in the years to come, it is necessary to take 
into account the tendency of what is known in mod- 
ern terminology as the Trust. The tribe, or fam- 
ily competed of individuals, in the childhood of 
the communal state, constitutes the trust; and its 
ethics were bounded by the simple demands for 
protection, sustenance and physical comfort of the 
members of the community. As the evolution of 
the aesthetic went forward in long succeeding ages, 
its orismologic lines were widened, so as to include 
other sources of enjoyment and action, until we 
find in Judaism a homogeneous people, subservi- 
ent to a code which lightened the burdens of the 
poor and unfortunate of its members, while it re- 
strained the greed of the wealthy and strong. Thus 
Judaism became the ideal trust of all times and all 
elimes. 



THE AUTO-CHRIST. 19 

The living energy of the modus vivendi of the 
trust is its communal desire for the benefit of all 
its members. And strict observance of the gov- 
erning rules and regulations of the body gives it 
its great power to accomplish the ends for which 
it was formed, as against the anarchical efforts of 
all erratic opposition. And so, when the trust 
shall have been brought to include, in full fellow- 
ship and benefit, all members of a state or 
government, then that state or government, if 
under a code in accord with right reason and 
high morals, will assume, naturally, a domina- 
ting position amongst equals, and even superiors 
in numbers, if these be not so wisely coherent in 
aims and action. All this is in true accord and 
harmony with man's mental and moral constitu- 
tion. His constant normal disposition, except un- 
der insane mental processes, is to congregate. 
Knowing this natural social tendency, Aristotle 
called him the politikos zoon, and such by creation 
he is. And so it may of a truth be said that the 
trust is man's normal estate. Without it he be- 
comes the sport of spiritual and physical environ- 
ments, and is practically placed in the loneliness 
of a hermitage. 

Viewing Judaism in the above light, and know- 
ing that the basic principle of the Judaic trust was 
individual prosperity, we need not be amazed at the 
proud splendor of David's and Solomon's reigns. 
Neither need we wonder at the heights to which 



20 THE AUTOC1IIUST. 

lier prophets and priests climbed, when we call to 
mind the policy of elevating the community by 
raising the individual members thereof. 

Just now we are somewhat startled by the or- 
ganization of another Judaic trust, strictly on 
ancient lines, which, knowing Jewish wealth and 
persistence of purpose, may well cause world-wide 
wonder and admiration. Reference is to the Zion- 
ist movement, which held its congress last year at 
Basle, Switzerland. To place this movement in 
its proper light, I can not do so well otherwise as 
to quote, quite at length, from a letter by Rabbi 
Wise, published in the Daily Republic, St. Louis, 
Dec. 18, 1898. The stupendous import of the 
movement to the world is sufficient excuse for the 
length of the extract : 

"Among: the striking features of the late Zionist Congress 
at Basle was the presence of a representative of the German 
Emperor, and the receipt of a cordial message of good will 
from the Sultan addressed to the president of the congress in 
respmse to the latter's felicitations. Furthermore, when the 
proposal of the Russian Czar looking to the convening of repre- 
sentatives of the Powers for the purpose of considering the 
possibility of checking the universal spread of militarism was 
hailed with joyous acclaim by the peace-loving and thoughtful 
Jews in Basle assembled, the wiser and calmer heads urged 
that to the formal congratulations of the congress be added an 
expression of the hope that the proposed international con- 
ference concern itself, in the spirit of wisdom and understand- 
ing, with the pressing Jewish question, and more especially 
with such solution thereof as looked to the repeopling of Zion 
by the scions of its ancient dwellers. 

" Not long thereafter an extraordinary mass-meeting of 
Jews was held at London in advocacy of the Zionist cause, at 
which Dr. Theodor Herzel thrilled his seven thousand hearers 



THE AUTO-CUKirfT. ti 1 

by declaring 'We are nearer success Lima people imagine' 
But a few weeks have gone since that memorable night for the 
•Jewry of London, and within that brief time gigantic strides 
forward have been made by our leader and his chosen follow- 
ers. To particularize, Herzel and a deputation of Zionists have 
been at Constantinople, Jerusalem and Rome. Even though 
it be true that Herzel was 'playing at ante-chamber diplo- 
macy' — the contemptuous term employed by his opponeuts— 
he might well have justified his seemingly dilatory policy by 
replying that a colossal scheme, affecting the interests of all 
nations in one way or another, could hardly be expected to be 
carried into effect in one day or in one year. To their honor 
be it said, the masses enrolled under the flag of Zion have been 
patient and uncomplaining, but the Jewish anti-Zionists — 
strange contradiction in terms — have asked with wearying per- 
sistence to be permitted to behold some practical, tangible issue. 
as a result of the unprecedented activity of every kind within 
the Zionist camp. Not because of these unseemly taunts, 
and yet, as it were, in triumphant answer to them, Herzel has 
been doing great things in these weeks for the cause of which 
he is the accredited spokesman. November, 1S9S, will be 
writ large in the calendar of Zionist history. 

"The Jewish people, the wide world over, have been ob- 
serving the festive celebration of the Chanuckah season, and 
abundant reason is at hand for a more joyous commemoration 
than has been the wont of the Jews for more than eighteen 
hundred years. The words of Zechariah, which are annually 
intoned as the keynote of the festival commemorative of the 
wresting of Judea from the hands of the Syrian rulers by 
the Maccabean heroes in the year 165 of the pre-Christian era, 
are about to be fulfilled, 'not by might or by power, but by my 
Spirit.' The Maccabean victory was wrested from the jaws of 
defeat by the fearless might and the unconquerable power of 
the Jewish warriors. Our bloodless victory is to be achieved 
by ' my Spirit ' — the Spirit of God resting upon the leaders of 
Isr lei, the Spirit of God moving some of the great rulers of tb« 
earth to deal in equity and righteousness with a long-suffe.ri'ig 
and deeply wronged people. 

" On his homeward way Herzel visited Rome. Whether 
he has succeeded in gaining the sympathy of the Pontiff of the 
Roman Church can not be stated at this time. One year ago, 
soon after the former congress was held, the Pope was declared 
to be unalterably opposed to Zionism, and to be prepared to 



22 THE AUTO-CIIKIST. 

brmg tlie vast intineuce of his ehurcb to bear at the Sublime 
Porte against the cause Official denial of this rumor was 
later made, and there is 110 reason for believing that the atti- 
tude of the Pope is one of unfriendliness. Being the spiritual 
head of many European Governments and peoples, notably 
France, Austria and Spain, the 'benevolent sanction' of Leo 
XIII. is indispensable to the realization of Zionist aims, which 
make for the establishment of Jews iu Palestine under the 
suzerainty of the Sultan and the protection of a concert of the 
European Powers. 

" Why should such ' benevolent sanction,' as is sought, be 
withheld? Rome entertains no ambition for the enlargement 
of her possessions in Palestine other than those of markedly 
sacred character. And if ambition there be, it must confess 
itself checked in the presence of the Turco-German alli- 
ance — despite the flattering gift of the Kaiser to his Roman 
Catholic subjects. On the other hand, Rome and every Chris- 
tian nation would surely welcome the advent of Jews in large 
numbers into the 'land of hallowed memory,' seeing that this 
infiltration would bring about the gradual and peaceable with- 
drawal of the Mohammedan population. We do not ask that 
the holy places be committed to our exclusive keeping ; let these 
remain, as they are now, in the hands of those who guard and 
cherish them. Surely the Christian world requires no as- 
surance on our part that every spot which Christians hold in 
reverence will be precious to us. The Jew shall not cease to 
honor true devotion to an ideal — least of all in the land which 
his past has hallowed for all time. 

" Not in vain do we place our reliance upon Kaiser and 
Sultan. Help and deliverance have come to us before through 
the grace of 'stranger kings.' Two historic instances recur 
to us of Israel marvelously saved and prospered with the help 
of reigning kings. In the year 538 of the pre-Christian era Cyrus 
took Babylon, and graciously permitted the Babylonian exiles 
to return to their fatherland. 

"The momentous results which followed from the re- 
establishment of the Judean Commonwealth are part of — and 
the largest part of — the world's history. A tree of two great 
branches flourished in time on the soil which the former 
captives by the rivers of Babylon began to cultivate with all 
the ardor and assiduity of their nature— two branches, the one 
the religion of Ezra and the latest prophets, of Hillel and the 
rabbis; the other, the faith of Jesus, later became the Chris- 



TUB AUTOCIIRIST. J 6 

tiaaity of his countless followers. And all this came to oass, 
as Dr. Max Nordau has aptly pointed out, owing to the hardi- 
hood of ahandful of the earliest Zionists, who, availing them- 
selves of the rights accorded them by Cyrus the noble, chose 
to give up their peaceful and secure residence in Babylon in 
order to live and labor in Zion, and rebuild its waste places. 
The second exile is soon to end. In the words of Josephine 
Lazarus, 'Once planted again upon native soil, "taking root 
downward," as Isaiah has it, who can tell what "upward 
flower and fruit" the immortal branch may bear— what new 
birth of the spirit, the undying spirit of Israel may give to the 
world V 

"Another king there was, grenter even than Cyrus, who, 
like him, befriended the Jews. In the course of his victorious 
marches Alexander visited Jerusalem in the year 332. Legends 
in great number have been woven around this visit, picturing 
the manner in which this youthful prince, who had come to 
scoff, remained to pray. Whether it be true, as rabbinic tale 
has it, that Alexander was so deeply impressed by the visage of 
the venerable high priest Jaddua and the priestly train that 
he was moved to bow in humility and adoration before those 
whom he had set out to conquer, and that he even caused sacri- 
iices to be offered up to the Most High in the Temple of Jeru- 
salem, we can not tell. We do know, however, that this Mace- 
donian ruler, far from despoiling and violating the shrine, as 
had been and continued to be the custom of earlier and later 
invading princes, openly befriended the Jews and treated them 
with the utmost consideration and generosity. Alas! Alex- 
ander died within a twelvemonth of his entry into Jerusalem, 
and the benefits which doubtless would have accrued to the 
Jews wei'e speedily annulled by his quarrelsome successors. 

"Zionism can and will, be immeasurably furthered by the 
great ones of the earth in our time. What is this Zionism ? Is 
Zionism 'a vague scheme of to-day,' a 'dream of fantastic 
content,' an 'ideal impossible of realization,' by all of which 
names it has been styled, derisively ? Zionism is nigh unto 
two thousand years old, dating from the seventieth year of 
this era, which witnessed the fall of Judea into the power of 
Rome. Zionism is that for whnh Jews of all the world 
have prayed uninterruptedly ever since Titus laid ruthless 
hand upon the Holy of holies — all the Jews excepting, it is 
but fair to add, the comparatively small number comprising 
the reform party, who, within the last one hundred years, have 



24 THK AUTO-OllKIST. 

abandoned the national idea of Israel, and have held with Moses 
Mendelssohn that Judaism stood for nothing: more than a re- 
ligious brotherhood. 

"Why, then, do some orthodox Jews seem to be arrayed 
against Zionism, especially in England, Germany and Austria- 
Hungary? How account for such opposition, seeing that they 
daily pray for their reinstatement in control of Palestine ? 
How account for this paradoxical state of affairs ? Perhaps, 
alter the fashion of an old Russian rabbi, who said to me at 
the Basle' congress, with inimitable humor, ' I do not venture 
to advocate Zionism from my pulpit, for if I did my hearers 
would make light of the whole matter, and think my advocacy 
was but another strained interpretation of a Biblical text, and 
another overpious attempt to explain away or excuse the ap- 
parent futility of our pi'ayers in behalf of Zionism.' Has not 
Rabbi A . A. Green, of London, spoken wisely, who pleads for 
the wholehearted support of the Zionist movement on the part 
of the Jewish nation, or else the effacement of every Zionist 
reference from the prayer-book ? 

•' Is there not something pathetic, almost tragic, in the at- 
titude of those who pray for a boon for which, being within 
reach, tbey will not even stretch forth their hands ? Zionism 
must remain ' a dream and a mirage,' if these so decree. But 
are not these awe-struck by the greatness of God's blessing, 
blinded by the nearness of the Divine Presence about to lead the 
children of Israel to their home ? Shall the ' great refusal' in 
truth come to pass ? Not unless we will it. It can Dot be. 
God hath willed otherwise for his well-beloved; the homeless 
are already on the way homeward." 

Now, let it be supposed that we are disposed to 
make prediction regarding the results of this Zion- 
ist movement. We must first look at, and care- 
fully analyze, the Jewish character, as a whole. 
Their cohesiveness as a people nationally. Their 
commercial and financial wealth. Their disposi- 
tion and readiness to invest that wealth for the up- 
building of the Zion of their songs. Their helpful 
efforts to their brethren in adversity. The domi- 
nating hope of their lives, as shown in adversity 



THE AUTOCHBIST. 25 

and prosperity. The doggedness of their supreme 
faith in God's ultimate redemj)tion of their race 
from that social and political ostracism which has 
curtod them. for ages. And every other of the men- 
tal, moral, personal and national characteristics 
which do now, and have for ages, made the Jew 
sui generis, either as a person or a community, 
amongst the tribes of the earth. Then, turning 
our attention to his environments, we would ask, 
What effect would this movement have on the na- 
tions of the earth? On the United States? On 
Great Britain ? On Russia ? Germany ? Turkey ? 
And others ? Is it likely that Russia and Turkey, 
the two possibly the most interested, will give con- 
sent ? What will Leo XIII., who spiritually rules 
the Catholic world, say and do in the premises ? 
Would Turkey give consent with the hope of lev- 
erage on Jewish shekels ? Should she consent, 
would the Muscovite Bear smell the game and forge 
his vast body over Ararat and adown the valleys of 
the Euphrates and Tigris ? And after taking all 
the factors into count, and giving each its full 
value, we would probably be inclined to say that 
the movement will succeed. 

Then, admitting this success, we might wish 
to peer further into the future, and inquire of rele- 
vant environments, " What nation would be most 
eager to form an alliance with this whilom 
hated and persecuted people?" The sick man of 
the Crescent, although, since the affair of Crete, ap- 



26 THE AUTOCIIKIST. 

] >arently convalescent, can not possibly stand on hia 
feet when Russia determines to move her frozen 
battalions towards more sunny climes, as is evi- 
dently her intent. He must bow the knee to 
Sclavic demands. Would Russia, then, like the 
consent of Judaism to fulfil the dream of Alexan- 
der Alexeivitch ? If this consent were given, 
would the proximity of the holy ceremony to the 
British sphere cause objection on the part of the 
Saxon ? Would the adherents of the Greek Catho- 
lic and Mohammedan religions, the latter compelled 
by Sclavic pressure, further test the strained re- 
lations between Great Britain and Russia? Is it 
probable that a confederation, including Italy, 
Prance, Portugal and others, and presided over by 
an appointee of Russia, might attempt to forward 
the religious ends of the Greek pope ? In case this 
rapprochement should be approached, what would 
be the attitude thereto of the Sir Moses Montefi- 
ores, the Baron Hirsches, the D'Israelis, the Rabbi 
Wises and the Rothschilds — Judah's sous of giant 
brain — then living? 

To answer all these questions satisfactorily and 
formulate predictions therefrom, one must have, 
as on a chart, the mental and moral strength, the 
grooves of thought, the patriotism, fraternal love, 
pride of race, faith in the Hebrew cult and re- 
ligious bias of the men who would have to deal 
with the problems which such conditions present 
for solution. 



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27- 



Again: In the settlement of these questions, 
and others, which now agitate humanity, and will 
continue to do so, until they be adjusted in the in- 
terest of every human being concerned, the United 
States of America must be accounted for, and 
placed in position relatively to her interests, and 
the interests of her citizens. As shown above, 
American Saxondom is pushing to the fore, in 
every land and among every people. That same 
love of liberty begotten by the Spirit of the cru- 
cified Jew, and born in the primitive Christian 
Church, which took its way westward, passed out 
between the pillars of Hercules, and took root and 
flourished in the rich mulch left by the decay of 
Scandinavian mythology on Drudic soil, crossed 
the Atlantic, and, from the relay battery of Yan- 
kee freedom receiving a new impulse, has already 
civilized and peopled the weastern continent. Ever 
restlessly active, it stopped not on the Pacific shore 
at the Golden Gate of empire, but with its return 
current, completing the circuit of the earth, it 
swept cannibalism from the beautiful Sandwich 
Isles, and just now has flashed its arc-lights from 
Dewey's decks into Philippine night. Still rest- 
less,and never resting, its civilizing energy is cloth- 
ing Japan as a new-born giant and flashing its 
headlights in the face of China's joss. We may 
safely say that "to the east by the way of the west," 
across India and Persia, the spirit of Samuel 
Morse, or civilization's twentieth-century sounder, 



28 THE AUT0-CT1RIST. 

will electrify staid old Jerusalem once again, with 
the message, "Peace on earth, good will to men." 

And so, while American interests are perme- 
ating all countries, and American citizens are being 
domiciled on all soils and in all climes, this Gov- 
ernment must extend its protecting arms to them, 
wherever they may be. By sective change, wher- 
ever American political and social thought meets 
an effete Oriental status, self-government is the con- 
dition to which the evolution of the communal com- 
pact is tending. And as the political differenti- 
ation becomes more apparent, we grasp more 
clearly the axiom based in the very constitution 
of the politikos zoon, that where the governing 
power discriminates in favor of one of the gov- 
erned, and against another, the one discriminated 
in favor of becomes corrupted, and the one discrimi- 
nated against becomes alienated : and hence is made 
clear the wisdom of that perfect fundamental rul( 
of right, formulated bv Jefferson : " Equal and 
exact justice to all, with special privileges to 
none." It is a principle of the unwritten law of 
the Saxon, that where a man (or nation) sows, 
there shall he reap. And the seeds of liberty, 
wherever sown in human souls, must be reaped by 
the sower, and garnered in the bins of the ages, 
for the enjoyment of the laborer in his days of 
rest. 

This ubiquity of Yankeedom will certainly call 
for Government attention to all treaties and na- 



THE AUTOOirniST. 



29 



tionaJ agreements that will go, in the future, 
towards adjusting contemplated static conditions 
of policies in the Orient. For this reason, in at- 
tempting a prediction regarding the ultimate re- 
sults of the Zionist movement, respect must be 
paid to the, at present, much-talked-of manifest 
destiny of the United States in her ameboid move- 
ments, consequent on the late Avar with Spain. In 
u prediction of this nature, one must admit a per- 
sistence of Saxon retention, in all premises once 
attained ; and a very great likelihood of defensive 
action in which there is a large seasoning of aggres- 
sion. 

As h*s been previously said, that which is true 
of nations is proportionately true of individuals; 
and the same rules, in proper limitations, apply to 
the latter as to the former. If we hypothecate a 
line of action in accordance with the geographical, 
political and social demands of territory, we can, 
by the process of elimination, exclude certain indi- 
viduals as participants in that action by a slight 
consideration of their modes of thought, their de- 
si re < and standing among their fellows. Thus, we 
would not, for an instant, consider it possible that 
Sir Robert Kitchener, President McKinley or W. 
J. Bryan would undertake the discovery of the 
supported Alaskan mother lode of gold-bearing 
quartz. Neither would we entertain a thought of 
Senator Cockrell or M. Caiuhon taking the con- 
tract to build our interoeeanic canal. Yet it would 



30 THE AUTO-CHRIST. 

I)p within the limits of reasonable probability to 
postulate the rapid advancement along politico- 
mil itary paths of such a public character as Prince 
George, now holding the reins in Crete. His near 
relationship to Nicholas Czar and Victoria Regina, 
and other potentates, gives grounds for such a 
course ; and a sufficiency of the blood and spirit of 
the heroes of Thermopylae exists in his make-up to 
give the energy, ambition and judgment to push 
him up the generally acknowledge ladder of fame, 
when opportunity for ascent offers. Neither is 
il at all likely that Don Carlos would ever advance 
higher, should he succeed to the Spanish throne, 
than to be the exponent of Spanish thought, within 
the limits of Spanish territory. And so of Czar 
Nichlas. He is believed to be conscientiously 
committed to the betterment of Russia, withun mo- 
narchical limits; and is only pressed to the fore, in 
China and the East, because Sclavic thought de- 
mands expansion to counteract supposed Saxon 
hind-hunger and to secure unfrozen shipping fa- 
cilities. This as a monarch. But as a religionist, 
the frondmarks of which faith he imagines are visi- 
ble at Jerusalem, he wishes to be crowned on the 
spot where the original plant grew. This much by 
exclusion. 

But individuals have been possessed of an am- 
bition to rule the world ; and why may not others 
arise determined to create positions demanding 
obedience and admiration coextensive with man's 



THE AUTO-CHRIST. 31 

domicile? The more ancient times have produced 
a Cyrus, an Alexander, a succession of Caesars and 
others. Later days gave birth and fortune to Char- 
lemagne and Napoleon L, and to these may be 
added many less successful, if equally ambitious ; 
not to speak of those whose dreams died at the 
birth. 

After having considered some other matters 
relative to the central thought we wish to present, 
for careful inspection, we shall group our conclu- 
sions around one man, as a garment, and ask for- 
him the title of The Auto-Christ. 



CHAPTER II. 

THE GROUPING OF NATIONS. 

We have frequently known of families whose 
members became divided on questions relating to 
their general welfare. These divisions are more 
frequent regarding material interests ; but social 
conditions often offer examples of more or less se- 
riousness. The experience of every person will 
hear out this statement satisfactorily. On account 
of such disagreements, two or more parties are 
.always formed, and the members of these several 
parties, acting in concert, will form groups whose 
actions tend to result at variance with each other 
group. In extending these sociological experien- 
ces, we find two or more families, whose real or 
supposed interests unite them in a line of action, 
a policy if you please, traversing the like interests 
of other families of the same neighborhood. As 
we widen our field of observation, towns of the 
same county, and counties of the same State, form 
leagues against other towns and counties, for finan- 
cial and political advancement. States of the 
same government, likewise, frequently are grouped 
for political and other reasons. It has not been 
long since, in each political campaign of national 
interest, our ears became tired of the phrases, 
" The solid South," "A united North." And even 

32 



THE AUTO-CHRIST. 33 

to-day one hears, to our national shame, of Eastern 
domination and Western ignorance. These expres- 
sions and conditions frequently have their origin 
in a jealous patriotism which can see no good com- 
ing out of Nazareth. 

In the western hemisphere, this spirit has crys- 
tallized its hearthstone thought into a creed known 
under the name-phrase, " The Monroe Doctrine." 
And its antithesis exists in the colonial policy, 
now largely controlling every government of Eu- 
rope of any importance and standing. 

The system of " log-rolling," so well under- 
stood, and frequently practiced, by state and na- 
tional legislatures in the United States, largely col- 
ors diplomatic agreements, where two or more na- 
tions have use of aid in extending their powers 
along paths which do not interfere or lead to cross- 
purposes. Thus we see a tendency toward a polit- 
ical lift cropping out between France, Italy, Port- 
ugal and Spain. And when these shall have be- 
come sufficiently cemented by interest, as they are 
already by racial kinship, expecting nothing from 
English or German friendship, they will naturally 
fall to Russia, as allies; from the fact that if the 
latter wins a strong foothold in China, she can well 
afford to grant favors inside English and Moham- 
medan spheres of influence to the former, whose 
arms are too weak to claim and maintain the same 
without aid. Material and commercial benefits 
vili likely play second part to territorial acquire- 



34: THE AUTO-CJrRIST. 

ments in the great Oriental struggle now well 
under way. Yet, territory, per se, seems to be the 
desire of all nations, and geographical accretion 
will be the rule ; possibly operated under the guise 
of protectorate obligations. Even now our own 
country has assumed responsibilities in the East 
and West Indies which may ultimately include in 
Asia continental lands. Political boundaries some- 
times fade, and at other times are rudely obliter- 
ated, by contact of arms. The former process 
seems to be in action in Manchuria, and the latter 
has prominent example in the dismemberment of 
Poland, by Russia, Prussia and Austria. Also, 
Ave may note the tendency of the four Latin na- 
tions — Portugal, Spain, Italy and France— to 
closer relations, as the promoter of political uni- 
fication by the fading of national boundaries. 
While it is not supposed possible for the United 
States and Great Britain ever again to unite as 
one nation, the welding force of blood, sameness 
of end aimed at, and commercial interests, are 
likely to bind the two peoples so strongly together 
that their actions in peace and war will be those 
of the most helpful friendship. Japan, the sui 
generis, and Germany, the now ruggedly honest, 
are surely but slowly drifting towards that port 
where America and England have hoisted together 
the flags of Brotherly Love and Religious Liberty. 
Politically, we would expect, in crises of great 
gravity and moment, a concert of action between 



THE AUTO-CHRIST. 35 

nations whose rulers demand submission from the 
subject to the throne, on all points affecting the 
social and commercial status of the citizen. For 
this reason we would not look for very firm bonds 
of friendship between such people as the Turks 
and citizens of the United States, or even Mex- 
ico. Yet, as between Turkey and Russia, the glit- 
ter of the throne would bind them closely whenever 
the divine right of kings was questioned, or placed 
in doubt. 

Viewing nations from a religious standpoint, 
and in the light of the old adage — 

"Birds of a feather 
Flock together,"' 

We would associate Greek Catholics, Roman Cath- 
olics and Mohammedans, for the reason that these 
religious bodies hold the contention that the church 
must be the exponent of religious duty, observance 
and doctrine ; and in her dictum the layman should 
acquiesce without question. The rule is the same 
in all these bodies, notwithstanding the enforced 
pretension to liberality, now practiced. Antithet- 
ic to these stands all Protestantism, on the ground 
of the right of private judgment. It becomes evi- 
dent, from what has been said, that community 
of interests, and community of religious thought, 
will tend to form a strong bond amongst all peo- 
ples, of whatsoever nationality, who come under 
the rule. 



36 THE AUTO-CHKTST. 

It should not. be thought that we have placed 
people together because of a supposed similarity of 
religious belief. We have gone back of all that, 
and associated them on a more profound ethical 
law. In so doing, we would leave them to settle 
the question of the true church at a time when out- 
side pressure has no bearing. It is with such peo- 
ple, not, Which church is the right one? but, Should 
the right church rule in all things ? An affirma- 
tive, here, will generate a strong friendship 
amongst very unlike people, especially when op- 
posing propagandists threaten forceful denial. 
The question of which is the divine church would, 
under such circumstances, be left for a time, sup- 
posed to be less dangerous to a tenet so deeply 
reverenced. 

We have purposely omitted consideration of 
the Austro-TTungarian Empire in any group likely 
to be formed. Accepting Bismarck's theory of 
the disintegration of this people at no distant day, 
and knowing the heterogeneous character of the 
population, it is plain that Prussia jpill, when the 
dissolution comes, receive the German contingent. 
Likewise the Sclavs and Magyars will fall to Rus- 
sia. This will give to the latter the title-deed to 
Hungary. The downfall of Austria will be bin 
slight compensation to the world for her part in 
the partition of Poland. Prussia, it may be said 
in this connection, although she has somewhat nm- 
doned her baseness in the same shameful tragedy, 



THE AUTO-CHRIST. 37 

by her contributions to science, literature and mor- 
als, will have a fearful interest to pay to civiliza- 
tion when the balance-sheet is struck from the 
ledger of destiny. In adjusting the books of fate, 
it looks as if the debits of Austria will be trans- 
ferred to Russia, with full power for collection by 
Saxondom. Poland's dismemberment must be 
atoned for, or else the future can not sing : 

" But truth shall conquer at the last ; 
For round and round we run, 
\nd ever the right conies uppermost, 
And ever is justice done." 

The ghosts of King Stanislaus, Count Pulaski ai d 
General Kosciusko will walk the earth like Ham 
let's father's, until the prophetic stanza becomes 
a realized fact. 

As to the Jews in Austria and Hungary, of 
whom there are about one and one-half millions. 
they, like their brethren in other nations, will 
undoubtedly, to a large extent, join the Zionist 
movement when time and opportunity are ripe for 
its emplacement. 



CHAPTER ill. 

THE COLONIAL POLICY. AS AFFECTING THE 
EASTERN QUESTION. 

We may call it destiny, or the natural evolu- 
tion of psychical law, or providence, as you will, 
but certain races have, as they gathered numbers 
and mental strength, enlarged their domain of 
action on lines parallel with the peculiarities of 
their dominating thoughts. Thus, the expansion 
of American influence has always been positively 
colored with a well-defined commercial, religious 
and moral tint. The idea of territorial expansion 
has been always in abeyance to these, as an influ- 
encing motive in our dealing with our neighbors 
and trans-oceanic peoples. And while England, 
Prance, Germany, Russia, and other Eastern com- 
monwealths, have pursued a policy, during the 
years past, which enlarged the realty of their re- 
spective Governments, we have been content to 
silently, patiently and perseveringly sow the seeds 
of Anglo-Saxon methods in moral fields alone, and 
blindly, yet hopefully, await the harvest. While 
other Governments, by diplomacy and conquest, 
have entered and claimed 1 lie tillable fields, we 
have been but tacit tenants at will, taking our part 
of the crops sown, in kind only. The results of 
this policy are now in evidence, in the position 



THK AUTOCIIEIST. 39 

which America holds as the beacon-light to all na- 
tions, illuminating the way to better forms of gov- 
ernment and higher social conditions. But, un- 
wittingly, it seems, " a change has come o'er the 
spirit of our dreams," and we find ourselves, nolens 
volens, in possession of Indianic realty interests 
not homogeneous to our hearthstones. Quoting 
ex-President Cleveland, we may well say that now 
" it is a condition, not a theory, that confronts us/' 
This amebic projection of American materiality 
into the older Eastern possessions is now an un- 
known, yet all-powerful factor, which has shocked, 
almost to paralysis, the coordinate energies of the 
political world. Just what we shall do on the im- 
perialistic plan remains to be seen. But, judging 
ourselves now by ourselves in the post, we will do 
right; and that right lies in individual freedom 
from rule by the self-anointed ones, whether they 
be Latin or Sclav. 

The British Colonial policy, in its last analysis, 
is an absolute ownership of territorial possessions, 
with an outgrowth of spheres which amounts to 
little less. On these two predications the Cobdcn 
Club politics are engrafted, latterly known as the 
open door policy. With American and British 
bottoms floating friendly flags side by side on all 
waters, Yankee protection must give way to free 
trade, or at least to reciprocity, which is but an- 
other name for the same thing. And so England's 
colonial policy traverses that of France, Germany 



40 THE AUTO-CHRIST. 

and Russia, in that it places the open door, not 
only of commerce, before every individual citizen 
within its scope and ruling, but likewise that of 
individual social and religious progress; thereby 
limiting the application of the term lese majestie 
to actual crimes against the rulers of the common- 
wealth in the persons of the citizens. 

French Fashoda would have barred African 
elevation, because the same militarism which 
convicted Captain Dreyfus would have dominated 
the upper Nile. English Fashoda is a kindly, 
bright link in the chain which binds Africa to 
individual responsibility and elevated manhood. 

Germany, while pushing outward for national 
selfish purposes, carries along in her methods a 
large savor of the humanities. Indeed, the salt of 
the social virtues lifts her methods far above those 
of Russia and France, in that, notwithstanding 
Emperor's William's monarchical clotures, the 
broadness of the Teutonic mind fairly recognizes 
the inalienable right of all men to " life, liberty 
and the pursuit of happiness." In so far as she 
has expressed, by action, a colonial policy, there 
is nothing in it to prevent a coalescence, when 
circumstances dictate, with Great Britain or the 
United States in the larger questions which affect 
the general good. 

Russia has but one integer in her colonial 
policy. And that is, to unite every country, over 
which she obtains power, to her throne by a con- 



I'll I', AUTO-CIIKIST. '41 

gelation of all rights, civil, religious and military. 
This is why Japan prefers the genial warmth of 
American and English friendship to the icy hug 
of the Sclavic bear. She has felt the nipping 
coldness of the Cossack winter in Corea and Man- 
churia, and will have none of it in the future. Fur- 
thermore, Russia's intent and purpose is, as indi- 
cated by recent diplomatic overtures, to extend 
her influence over China, and, through Mongolian 
prejudice and methods, jeopardize British hold- 
ings in India. The recent branch railway from 
the Caspian Sea to Merv is a protruding arm of 
conquest, feeling for Afghanistan and Persia, 
which stand as a wall of defense for India, on 
the northwest bank of the Indus. When this wall 
crumbles, as crumble it must, between British and 
Russian approachment, then the Lion and the Bear 
will stand face to face, as they have never done be- 
fore. The Saxon and Sclavic spheres will have 
reached the orbital point of interference, and one 
must bend or break. 

Back northwest is another, perhaps two points, 
from which Russia may approach toward India. 
One by military forces, through the passes of the 
Caucasus and down the Euphrates and Tigris. 'The 
other by diplomacy, by way of Constantinople and 
the Dardanelles. This last would assume a mari- 
time complexion, and, in " ships of whirling 
things," its objective point would be the land of 
Judah's hopes and tears. 



4 2 THE AUTO-CIIRIST. 

While Greece is too small and weak to figure 
largely as a nation in colonization enterprises, the 
disciples of Cadmus, individually, will likely 
amaze the world as advocates of Russian advance- 
ment. We know that the descendants of the old 
Grseco-Macedonian Empire have given to the iron 
Eoman an intellectual energy which fully grasps 
Oriental problems. And it is the contention that 
Prince George, now in Crete as a representative 
of the Powers, has blood kin, distant it is true, but 
all the more true to their traditions, who stand 
where Cossack swords gleam, and where Gaul's 
wasted throne offers a tempting prize. One of 
these may yet wear the pontiff's triple crown. The 
relationship betwen the Czar and the King of 
Greece lends strength to this statement, and a re- 
enforcement exists in religious brotherhood. 

Spain's colonies have been extensive, but now 
are almost nil. Commencing with the secret ces- 
sion of Louisiana to France, under the gigantic 
grip of the first Napoleon, in A. D. 1800, and end- 
ing with the East and West Indies relinquishments 
to the United States, she has experienced a century 
of losses unparalleled in the history of nations. But 
if we .expect an evening up of the balance-sheets of 
time, we will not wonder at all this when we look 
on the debit page of her ledger. Notwithstanding 
Prescott's cowardly apologies for her inhumanities 
in Mexico and Peru, she has blackened the name 
of religion by making it the plea for shedding riv- 



THE AUTO-CHRIST. 43 

era <>f blood to secure the extortion of gold. The 
sole animus of all her acquisitions lias been her 
greed of gold. And for the exercise of this greed, 
she has paid in loss of colonies, loss of national re- 
spect, humiliation, defeat, shame and disgrace. 
Her methods of conquest have been dictated by the 
hot blood of a southern clime, and characterized 
by the fierce-eyed cruelty of the tiger. Quick, ner- 
vous, rapid of action, she presented in these the 
opposite of the slow, stately, cautious, painstaking, 
cold conquests of Russia ; and yet the ends aimed at 
were of like kind — national weatth, regardless of 
human rights. 

The colonial possessions of Spain in the far 
East, having passed into the keeping of the United 
States, will become a large and determining factor 
in the course the latter will take on the adjustment 
of Asiatic problems. Notwithstanding Russia's 
seeming friendly acquiescence i-n American control 
of the Philippines, it is evident that America's po- 
sition of citizen consent to government will clash 
with Russia's autocratic regime ; and, further, 
American interests in China will not brook Czar- 
ish methods in railway and commercial exploita- 
tion. So our holdings in the East Indies will cer- 
tainly bring us on to a very friendly footing with 
Great Britain in China and India. This com- 
?uunity of interests, in which Japan is equally 
concerned, will unquestionably place these three 
Governments side by side, in opposition to Rus- 



44 THE AUTOCIITtlST. 

so-French expansion; and, as before stated, Ger- 
many "will be forced into the alliance, from the 
fact that she can not live in peace with France on 
any lines affecting French and Russian intention": 
in Syria, Africa and China. 



CHAPTER IV. 

THE GLIMMERINGS OF A PREDICTION. 

Russia, whose canaille largely sympathize with Spain, 
can not afford a rupture with the United States, for the reason 
that her orbit of conquest and that of Great Britain are rapidly 
approaching the point of interference, and any entanglement 
of her forces would be quickly taken advantage of by the latter 
Power, to cripple her advance in the Orient. Until Russia has 
completed her great trans-Siberian railway from the Caspian 
Sea to Otkhotsk, on the Pacific, she wants no war, and will 
have none, unless it be forced on her. But when this is com- 
pleted, and feeders constructed to Port Arthur and other points, 
so as to facilitate the mobilization and concentration of her vast 
Sclavonic hordes, some body politic, most likely Britain, may 
look out for a hugof the Sclavic Bear that will not be as tend' r 
as the moonlight caress of loving lover for his sweet-lipped girl 
Dulcina. Afghanistan and Persia will probably then be wiped 
off the map, and Turkey known no more forever.— Extract from 
the author's letter to a local paper, June, 1898. 

Spain, France and Italy, as shown heretofore, 
have supposed wrongs to right. And these wrongs 
are laid at Saxon and Teutonic doors. The Greeks, 
who have furnished a deal of the brains for Latin 
conquests and glory, having yet in their descend- 
ants men of great prominence and promise, will 
gladly lend aid to any prospect of preferment for 
their own sons. England, Germany, Japan and 
the United States have all the brains, political and 
military, which they can find employment for. 
Hence, Greece must turn to Russia for patronage. 
'! he latter, with her immense schemes, religious 
nnd political, needs the fire of Grajco-Latin enthu- 



46 THE ATJTOCHEIST. 

siasm to warm her frozen Sclavs to action. Don 
Carlos will possibly pacify Spain, either by suc- 
ceeding to the throne, or failing entirely in his ef- 
forts, and either event will be quieting to the Span- 
ish people. There at this time falls a dark shadow 
across the future of Trance which portends the 
downfall of the republic. This Napoleonic umbra 
is not to be mistaken or undervalued. Coming into 
possession of a fortune of ten millions of dollars by 
the bequest of Empress Eugenie, Prince Victor 
will not lack for funds to elevate the political status 
of his family to the first rank of nobility. His 
brother Louis, already a colonel in the Russian 
army, and standing very near to the Czar, has 
the military genius and prestige to avail himself 
of Sclavic friendship, and back his skill in arms 
with his brother's money for the good of the pater- 
nal name. It is true that Prince Victor resigned 
his claim to the French throne in favor of his 
brother Louis ; but this action could easily be recon- 
sidered, if it should be concluded in their councils 
that a wider field opened for the latter. With the 
passing of Persia, Afghanistan and Turkey, Syria, 
and in fact all Asia Minor, would needs ha\^e a mil- 
itary head, and who would stand a better chance 
for this high and honorable position than Prince 
Louis Napoleon, now soon to be made a general in 
the Czar's army? Roumania and Bulgaria will 
easily, in the grinding, splintering process, fall 
under flic same hand. Placed in authority here 



THE AUTO-CHRIST. 47 

and in this manner, Lonis Napoleon's opportunity 
to anoint himself a leader of men rivaling Napo- 
leon I., will be obviously great, and not to be dis- 
regarded. With his Greek blood, Roman endur- 
ance and Russian backing, circumstances seem to 
point to him as the Auto-Christos whose fate it 
shall be to cross swords and try the wager of bat- 
tle with Saxondom for the possession o f *^e wealth, 
of India as the prize. 



Tn the following pages our hero and the felicity 
of his title, Auto-Christ, The Self-Anointed, 
will be fully recognized. 



CHAPTER V 

SOME FACTS. FIGURES AND FANCIES RELATING 
TO THE DESTINY OF THE NAPOLEON IDAE. 

"Well, but, General," I broke in, "I mean, wi at made the 
greatest impression upon you in your foreign tra\ els ? " 

Without a second's hesitation, " Nast, the Latin races 
are doomed," said he, impressively. 

Thus unerringly had General Grant, years ago, analyzed 
and formulated the situation so perfectly appreciated and so 
forcibly defined by England's Premier in his grand speech. 

Mokristox, N. J., June 7. TH. NAST. 

— Globe Democrat, June 12, 18! 8. 

Unobserved by the ordinary mind, there are 
forces operating in the evolution and change of 
kingdoms, countries and peoples, which the care- 
ful student of present and past religio-political 
conditions recognizes with anxiety and alarm. 
Admiration for diplomatic moves is frequently 
cooled by a knowledge of the ambitious spirit 
which prompts the acts, and stands behind the 
throne as the inspiration for schemes of aggrandize- 
ment for the benefit of men not any more worthy 
than the veriest peasant who earns his bread by the 
sweat of his brow, at daily toil. 

The above observations were prompted by a 
knowledge of the various and varied news dis- 
patches appearing in public prints, from time 
to time, touching the unbalanced and unsettled 
greater Eastern question, as it is popularly known, 

48 



THE AUTO-CHRIST. 49 

coupled with the consensus of the world's pre- 
monitions, looking for the curtain to rise on that 
final scene of battle and blood which seems to glare 
in huge letters from the billboards of the latter 
ages. At each diplomatic crossroad, destiny ap- 
pears to have posted his gigantic display-card 
prophetic of evil: 

"And we all say, Whence is the message, 
And what may the wonders mean ?" 

It is stated that for three hundred years the 
ambitious dream of the Czar of Russia has been to 
receive the crown as Universal Bishop of the East- 
ern (Greek) Church in the city of Jerusalem. To 
prevent this, and protect her interests in India, 
which would thereby be greatly jeopardized, Great 
Britain has for long years persistently and firmly 
held a shield, emblazoned with the lion rampant, 
in front of Turkish Mohammedanism, facing the 
Sclavic Bear. And so, whatever else oi rojjao. 
grievances may have been thrown for the moment 
in the foreground to dazzle, disturb and blind an 
uninformed world, the claws of the lion on the 
Saxon field, and the teeth of the bear ayont tbe 
Balkan passes, have shown potently the portent of 
the two opposing, yet occult, energies which shal! 
forge, in superheated furnace and with mighty 
sledgehammer, the destinies of mankind in the 
oncoming ages. 

The Saxon race stands for liberty, science, prog- 
ress, humanity, civilization, and all that these can 



50 THE AUTO-CHRIST. 

mean in their widest sense for human happiness. 
The conservatism of autocracy finds its shibbo- 
leth in that magic name which shone brightest dur- 
ing the Augustan age, when "Rome sat on her sev- 
en hills, and from her throne of beauty ruled the 
world " ; viz. : Ca3sar — Russianized into Czar. To 
this name, in its mightiest representative, the Czar 
of Russia, the satraps of the olden regime turn 
with wide-open eyes and bated breath, exclaiming, 
" Save us and our titles, to rule our kind, from that 
fire kindled from the torch of liberty on Britain's 
soil, and blown to a great conflagration by the 
breath of her sturdy Saxon sons and daughters 
in the little red school-house of the Western 
world." 

As a reinforcement of the above theory, indi- 
cating the intentions of Russia, the following from 
the Vienna Tagblatt, not seven years since, is 
strongly apropos : 

The Czar's highest aim is to be crowned Emperor of Asia 
on the site of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem. Every step 
toward Constantinople is a stride toward Jerusalem. It is 
of great significance that the emperor, Alexander III., con- 
fides much more upon the power of religious enthusiasm than 
either of his predecessors did. He wishes to procure a more 
official and ostentatious consecration of his religious author- 
ity, and to have his position emphasized as the supreme pro- 
tector of the Eastern churches and the orthodox faith, and 
so rally all the Greek-Oriental churches and peoples around 
the person and the office of the Czar, as the Constantino and 
Justinian of the modern world. The bold project has been 
long in preparation, is never lost sight of in any diplomatic 
movement, and no sacrifice of money is thought too great to 
secure this end. Numbers of settlements of Eastern monks. 



THE AUTO-CHRIST. 51 

of apparently harmless and unpretending character, have 
been and are being founded: and Russia finds the money fop 
the purchase of the laud. — Quoted from Frank Leslie's Weekly. 

That England and Russia are gradually ap- 
proaching the point where their orbits interfere 
is indicated in the following remark by Professor 
Williams. He says : " Nothing can prevent 
Afghanistan and Persia from tumbling to pieces 
between the advancing forces of these two gigantic 
empires." This is also clearly shown by a letter 
from General SkobelofT to a friend in Moscow, 
published in 1881, in the Novoe Yremya, from 
which the following is taken : " Our statesmen 
will see that Russia must have the Bosphorus to 
protect and develop her manufacturing centers 
and her commerce. Only when she has these 
straits can she repeat with Kosciusko, 'Finis Po- 
loniae/ A war for the Balkan peninsula without 
a formidable demonstration against India would 
be absurd ; for us Central Asia is only of temporary 
importance." 

We will set side by side the above from Sko- 
beloff and this from General Upton : " Con- 
stantly increasing, by her Eastern policy, the 
deadly feeling of hostility which already exists in 
Russia against her, the moment the former occu- 
pies Constantinople, England must seize Egypt. 
Once secure in Constantinople, the fleets of Eng- 
land can no longer oppose the designs of Russia. 
Converting the Black Sea into an inland lake, 
thus insuring her communication, a railroad from 



f>2 THE AUTO-CHRIST. 

Trebizonde across to the valley of the Euphrates 
and thence to Damascus, will place Russia on the 
flank of England's line of communications. Thus 
brought face to face, it is not improbable that these 
two great Powers may change the face of Asia on 
the famous plain of Esdraelon." England al- 
ready, since the above was written, has practically 
taken possession of Egypt, and by a recent treaty 
with Belgium secured the right of way for a rail- 
road from the Cape of Good Hope to Cairo. Also, 
as an advance move in the stupendous game now 
on the world's chessboard, Great Britain has 
placed a pawn on the Island of Mitylene, and ex- 
changed another on a small, rocky island in the 
Persian Gulf for a more commanding position off 
the coast of Candia in the Mediterranean. As a 
cc nnter-check to this masterly play, Russia is 
pushing her great trans-Siberian railway, con- 
necting the Caspian Sea with Vladivostok in the 
East. And from this last point her elephantine 
antenna; have already felt the strategic possibili- 
ties of Port Arthur, and, con?enuently, Manchuria 
and Corea. Notwithstanding England's coign of 
vantage at the Pillars of " Hercules, Suez Canal 
and other points, this Russian railway system, a 
behemoth in its line, will keep British military 
brains on the qui vive to forestall a coup de main 
by Russia's arms at many points in Europe and 
the East, all probably threatened at the same mo- 
ment. For example, Europe may be attacked (in 



TTTTC AUTO-CHRIST. 53 

summer) from the Gulf of Finland, Kronstadt 
being the port of St. Petersburg.; or, from Odes- 
sa, either by land through Austria, or, forcing the 
Dardanelles, via the Mediterranean; Egypt by 
the last route. India from Merv, through 
Afghanistan, or by way of the Caucasus passes 
down the Euphrates and Tigris ; and the far Ea°t 
by way of the Yellow Sea, now almost completely 
in the hug of the Bear. 

And so, the issue is joined ; the Kelts and 
Saxons, the xanthochroi dominating, on the one 
side, and the Sclavonic hordes, spread from the 
Gulf of Bothnia on the west to the Sea of Okhotsk 
eastward, and from the North Cape of Asia to 
the mountains of Altai on the south, on the other 
side. 

It is evident to the most superficial observer 
of current events, that in Europe and Asia an 
alignment of the Powers must take place; and 
this without any mental reservation or equivoca- 
tion whatever. The flood of fire and blood will, 
nolens volens, when it comes, gather to either cur- 
rent all organic and political power, forming two 
mighty drifts, perhaps to be annihilated in the 
awful shock when ambition to rule dashes them 
against each other with a force unparalleled since 
time began. The natural allies of Iiussia will be 
Italy, France, Spain, Turkey, Persia, Portugal, 
Bulgaria, China, Montenegro, and such smaller 
principalities of Asia as are dominated by the 



54: THE AUTO-CHRIST. 

Greek, Catholic and Mohammedan religions. The 
fact that Russia holds Turkey in the hollow of her 
hand, and Greece by religion and royal relation- 
ship is fettered, and France allied by treaty, gives 
the Czar a power which can not be questioned by 
any or all of these. In this connection it may be 
well to note that the Sagas ta government, in the 
last few days preceding our war with Spain, made 
overtures to Russia and Frarfee for aid, in the 
event of a conflict with the United States. This 
shows a gravitation of forces of like kind. 

Strongly united by blood, commerce and com- 
mon interest stand Great Britain, Germany, Prus- 
sia, Denmark, Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland, the 
United States of America, and perhaps others of 
like origin ; and added to these may be mentioned 
that strong, recently born to civilized light, non- 
descript, yet faithful friend, Japan. Late ex- 
pressions of kindly feeling by Germany to, and 
canvassing of a treaty alliance by Great Britain 
with the United States, show plainly what may 
be expected in case the Anglo-Saxon civilization 
should be threatened, either in Europe or America, 
by that influence emanating from the effete debris 
of a decaying Orientalism. Notwithstanding Em- 
peror William's coquetry with Russia during the 
late trouble in Crete, Germany can not afford to 
antagonize Great Britain and America on any 
major problem involving the settlement of the 
greater Eastern question. The Teuton's safety, 



THE AUTO-CHRIST. 55 

and perhaps his very existence, depends on his 
unwavering friend-hip to his Saxon cousins. Ger- 
many allied to France and Russia would be a mix- 
ture of oil and water. Alsace and Lorraine will 
never be forgotten or condoned; and Kiao-Chau 
and Port Arthur repel each other as positive poles 
of two equally strong magnets. No one knew 
all this better than Bismarck. 

And who shall command these mighty oppos- 
ing forces when the decisive hour makes demand ? 
Answering this question as to the Saxon, we will 
say that that race which has given to the world a 
Moses, a Joshua, a David, a Wellington, a D'lsra- 
eli, a Gladstone, a Bismarck, a Washington, a 
Webster, a Lincoln, a Lee, a Grant, an Albert Sid- 
ney Johnston, a Sheridan, "a Stonewall Jackson, 
and many others of kith and kin, will not lack for 
warriors and statesmen in the bloody hour of its 
need and trial. (Let no one accuse me of an eth- 
nological blunder in the above statement. I know 
what I have written, *and have no corrections to 
make.) The Witenagemote at the proper time 
will call the proper names. 

As heretofore indicated, the prodromata of 
Asiatic diplomacy prognose the early forming of 
an Imperial Confederacy consisting probably of 
Russia, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Bulgaria, Mon- 
tenegro and China, with other Powers whose domi- 
nating religion is Catholic, Greek or Mohammedan 
joining later on, all traversing Saxon progress and 



56 THE AUTO-CHRIST. 

civilization. For the commander-in-chief of this 
coalition there stands preeminently, above all, but 
one name since the Caesars, around which there 
gathers the glory of a spell likely to bind a world 
that is crude in knowledge and civilization to the 
one idea of an aristocratic autocracy. That name 
is Bonaparte. As long ago as 1856 the Rev. Dr. 
Berg, of Philadelphia, seemed to have a prophetic 
inkling of this condition of affairs, when he said: 
'' In the permanence of the present alliance 
(France and England) I have no faith. A 
French alliance with Russia might render Louis 
Napoleon, or his successor, master of Europe. 

" There is another future probability 
pointing to a Napoleon as the leader in this Asi- 
atic arbitrament, which can only be settled by an 
appeal to the sword. It will be very likely that 
a pope, pliant to the demands of ambition and 
greed, will be selected to succeed Leo, on his de- 
mise, which will certainly be in the near future. 
A pope can only be selected from the College of 
Cardinals. A writer of some eminence about 
thirty years ago pointed out a newly made priest 
in the Catholic Church, Lucien Bonaparte, as 
likely some day to become pope. Since that time 
this priest has been made a cardinal. Will this 
cardinal soon become the pope of Rome?* In 

*The text is in error. I have, on verifying my state- 
ments, learned that Cardinal Lucien Bonaparte died in 1895, 
and was succeeded, as the head of that family, by Prince 



THE AUTO-CHRIST. 57 

case this should transpire, who would this Bona- 
parte pontiff most likely wish to see at the head 
of the above indicated Imperial Confederacy \ 
Certainly no one more than a member of his own 
family. Just such a person we find in Prince 
Louis Napoleon, who became a colonel of a Rus- 
sian regiment near Syria in 1890; and at last ac- 
counts was stationed in the Caucasus. The im- 
portance of this point, strategically considered, can 
not be overestimated as a " place of arms." A 
man high in military affairs says of it: " View- 
ing 'All Russia' as an army disposed for an an- 
vance southward, it is thus seen to be heavily re- 
enforced at its right, with its left and right wings 
somewhat refused. At Odessa, upon the extreme 
right, there is a passive demonstration always in 
progress, since this is the chief base of operations 
against Constantinople or Europe, while at Merv 
there is an active demonstration on foot, which is 
perpetually threatening Herat, or Asia. At times 
the balance of agitation swings from east to west, 
as at the present moment, then back again, but 
never does Russia suffer the pendulum to come to 
rest upon the center of the arc, nor will she, until 

Napoleon Charles Gregoire Jacques Philippie Bonaparte, his 
brother. Now a dispatch from Rome states that Prince 
Charles Bonaparte is d ad (Feb. 12, 1899). This member of 
the Bonaparte family was born in 1835. In 1859 he married 
Princess Marie Christina, daughter of Prince Jaen-Nopomu- 
cene Ruspoli. He leaves two daughters and three sisters. 
This death will prove immaterial so long as a friend of the 
family may succeed the present pontiff. — Authop, 



58 THE AUTOCIIRIST. 

ready to detach it and give gravity its chance to 
act in an unexpected manner!" And there stands 
Prince Louis Napoleon at the center of that arc- 
Will it be for him to give direction to the gravi- 
tating force of this " human glacier " ? It may 
be said, in traversion of the thought that a Bona- 
parte would ultimately and soon hold the reins, 
military or otherwise, on Greek and Mohammedan 
Europe and Asia, that Islamism would demur on 
account of the Catholic affiliation of the Napoleon- 
idas. This will have but little weight, when we 
remember two or three facts well known to Mo- 
hammedans. One is, and history affirms it. that 
Napoleon I,, in his expedition to Egypt, asked the 
Mohammedans to recognize him as the man of des- 
tiny, and, as was printed in the newspapers dur- 
ing the late war with Mohammed Achmet, Moham- 
medan seers predicted the appearance of the man 
of destiny about thirteen hundred years after He- 
gira (i. e., thirteen hundred lunar or Mohammedan 
years, a period equal to 1,260 of our years, ex- 
actly). Now, it is a fact, also, that Prince Louis 
Napoleon was born on July 16 (the anniversary 
of the Ilegira), 1864, which is exactly 1,260 years 
of 360 days each after Hegira date, equal to 1,212 
solar years. All this, to the superstitious Mo- 
hammedan mind, would be a much better creden- 
tial, taken in connection with their prophecies, 
than Napoleon I. could possibly present. It is a 
further fact that Prince Louis has latelv visited 



THE AUTO-CHRIST. 59 

Syria and Egypt, the glory of whose kingdoms 
he has been inspecting, just about thirteen hun- 
dred years after Hegira. 

But the jNTapoleonida* have far stronger claims 
to recognition in the East than the foregoing: 
even the royal right to rule, descending to its pres- 
ent members through a long line of ancestors — 
though it be a right existing " only in that mighty 
spell, a name." To set forth this royal preroga- 
tive, the following from a book published in Lon- 
don, 1829, by Alfred Addis, B. A., is given: 

Zopf, in his "Summary of Universal History," twentieth 
edition, states that a scion of the Comnene family, who had 
claims to the throne of Constantinople, retired into Corsica, 
and that several members of that family bore the name of 
Calomeros, which is perfectly identical with that of Buona- 
parte. It may, hence, be concluded that this name has been 
Italianized. We do not believe that this circumstance was 
ever known to Napoleon. This is stated in Mountholon and 
Gourgand's "Memoirs of Napoleon," Vol. III., p. 8. If this be 
true, Napoleon might be emperor of the Romans by right of 
birth as well as arms. 

This claim to a position of sovereignty in the 
countries of the old Graxo-Macedonian Empire, 
shadowed forth in the above quotation, may be sub- 
stantiated by the following statement of a recent 
writer : 

One of the ancestors of the Napoleon Bonaparte fam- 
ily was David II., emperor of Trebizoude, who was rightful 
heir to the throne of Constantinople, but was put to death 
by Mohammed II. His only son, George Nicephor Comnene, 
fled to Mania in Peloponnesus, in 1476, and was made 
Protogeros over the community settled there. This 
official dignity was held by ten members of the Comnene 



GO THE AUTO-CHRIST. 

family, in succession, till 1675, when Constantine Comnene, 
the tenth Protogeros, was induced, by fear of being subju- 
gated by the Turks, to emigrate from Mania to Italy with 
three thousand of his fellow-countrymen. Arriving in Genoa, 
Jan. 1, 1676, he obtained from the Genoese Senate a grant of 
some tracts of land in Corsica, which were thenceforth colo- 
nized by him and his descendants. One of his sons, Calome- 
ros Comnene, subsequently settled in Florence, in Tuscany, 
and as the Greek word Calomeros (Kalos Meros) signifies buunu 
parte in Italian, he therefore adopted the name of Buonaparte. 
Jn 1719 Antonio Buonaparte, a member cf this Buonaparte 
branch of the Comnene family, emigrated from Tuscany to 
Corsica ; and Napoleon Buonaparte, who was born at Ajaccio, 
in Corsica, on Aug. 15, 1769, was his grandson. Corsica was 
ceded to Prance by the Genoese in 1768. The descent of the 
Comnene from David XL, last emperor of Trebizonde, was 
attested by letters patent of Louis XVI., issued Sept. 1, 1783. 
This account of Napoleon's family is given in the " Memoirs of 
the Duchess de Abrantes," published in Paris in 1835. 

It is true that it is claimed that " the attempt 
which has been made to trace the descent of the 
Bonaparte family from a branch of the Comnene, 
settled in Corsica, is not supported by valid evi- 
dence." But sufficient color of title stands out 
for suit ; if not in law, still by the sword, should 
ambition, backed by power, press the trial. It 
would only require such a supporter as Napoleon 
I. had in Louis Nicholas Davout, to confer all the 
" logical strength, added to formal correctness," 
necessary to make the claim valid. Indeed, en 
passant, and in connection, the name Davout bris- 
tles with suggestions. Take the name Davoud 
Pasha, Catholic Armenian, Turkish Minister, etc. 
We may ask, Are Davout and Davoud only other 
forms of David ? The phonetic similarity is 



THE AUTO~CHRIST. 63 

great, whatever the philologic differentiation mav 
be. Then with Davout we have the names I .< mi is 
Nicholas, both prominent in Eastern religion ami 
kingship; even though Napoleon's favoritism for 
Davout may not have been based on kinship of 
blood from David of Trebizonde. The name Louis 
gave eighteen kings to France, besides Clovis (an- 
other and older form of Louis) ; three emperors 
to Rome, the last of whom ended the Carlovingian 
dynasty ; besides the German Ludwigs and others 
of note. (Davout was born in the old province 
of Burgundy.) Nicolas (Nicholas) furnished 
five Roman pontiffs, the first of whom was conse- 
ciated in Saint Peter's Church in the presence of 
l.udwig II., Emperor of Germany. The Czars 
Nicholas are well known. So much for a play 
upon names. 

But this conflict between the Saxon and the 
Sclav will have a large element of a religious com- 
plexion as a segregating force. Especially will 
this power be felt and operate on the partially 
civilized, yet very superstitious, canaille compos- 
ing the rank and file of the armies opposing the 
hosts of an advanced and enlightened democracy. 
This has been adumbrated in the above remarks 
on the connection of a member of the Napoleonida? 
with the Hegira date. And whatever of relevancy 
this superstitious bent of the civilized mind may 
have, respecting the acceptance as truth of the 
so-called Semitic folk-lore and Christian faith, we 



62 TILE AUTO-CIIKIST. 

are inclined to give it full weight in the following 
exegesis, as bearing on Saxon protestantism, and 
its engagement in determining the destiny of the 
family in question. In doing this we shall give to 
the Book of Daniel and the Johannean Apocalypse 
a date sufficiently modern to satisfy Doctor Kue- 
nen. of the University of Leyden, or any other wor- 
shiper at the shrine of Higher Criticism. Also 
be it stated, that our fancy shall have a wide field 
and free rein; and while our figures may lie, they 
shall, because of the facts contained, photograph 
a strong semblance of truth. 

We now ask the reader's careful attention, in 
the order presented, to Daniel ii. 31-33, and Rev- 
elation xiii. 11-18: " Thou, O king, sawest, and 
behold a great image. This great image, whose 
brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and 
the form thereof was terrible. This image's head 
was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, 
his belly and his thighs of brass, his legs of iron, 
his feet part of iron and part of clay." "And I 
beheld another beast coming up out of the earth ; 
and he had two horns like a iamb, and he spake as 
a dragon. And he exerciseth all the power of the 
first beast before him, and causeth the earth and 
them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, 
whose deadly wound was healed. And he doth 
great wonders, so that he maketh fire to come 
down from heaven on the earth in the sight of 
men, and deceiveth them that dwell in the earth 



THK AUTOCHKIST. 63 

by means of these miracles which he had power 
to do in the sight of the beast j saying to them 
that dwell on the earth, that they should make an 
image to the beast, which had the wound by a 
sword and did live. And he had power to give life 
unto the image of the beast, that the image of the 
beast should both speak, and cause that as many 
as would not worship the image of the beast should 
be killed. And he causeth all, both small and 
great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a 
mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: 
and that no man might buy or sell, save he that 
had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the 
number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him 
that hath understanding count the number of the 
beast: for it is the number of the man; and his 
number is Six hundred threescore and six." 

Passing the supposition that Xapoleon I. was 
the beast (the king never dies ; beast is govern- 
ment, king) which received the deadly wound or. 
Waterloo, and did (or will) live in a subsequent 
member of his family, we will proceed. Inas- 
much as Daniel's image, as stated in the reference, 
was to convey to Nebuchadnezzar a knowledge of 
events and political conditions which should trans- 
pire hereafter, we will fancy, as the king beheld 
the image standing before him, he was facing 
northwest from Babylon ; and the right foot of the 
image was at Rome, with the left foot at Constan- 
tinople, somewhat advanced towards Jerusalem; 



G t THE AUTO-CHRIST. 

and body slightly projected, as if in tlio act of 
stepping forward. And this is in accord with the 
chronological formation of the Latin and Greek 
Churches. Dexter, prior, at Rome: sinister, sub- 
sequent, at Constantinople. Viewing the image 
in this pose, poised for an advance, we will ascer- 
tain its name from the number in the reference — 
G6G — " for it is the number of a man." 

There is a system of numbering, both in the 
Creek and Latin languages, known as the numer- 
ical alphabet, each letter standing for a certain 
number. But, taking this mystic number as a 
guide, we will first determine the nationality of 
the man. The Apocalypse was written in Greek. 
And we find one nation, and one only, in all an- 
cient or modern history whose name will bear even 
a first glance. That one is expressed in the phrase 
'• The Latin Kingdom," as written in Greek, thus: 
He-8; L-50, a-1, t-300, i-10, n-50, e-8 ; B-2, a-1, 
s-200, i-10, 1-30, e-5, i-10, a-1— 666. It should be 
noted that the e in Latine is eta, while the e in Bas- 
ileia is epsilon; a difference in number, in favor 
of the former, of three (3). 

As to the man. The Bonapartes, though of 
Greek extraction, were French, and France is a 
Latin nation. Take the official or kingly cogno- 
men, Napoleon in the Greek dative, and we have: 
N-50, a-1, p-80, o-70, 1-30, e-5, o-TO, n-50, t-300, 
i-10— 666. 



THE AUTO-CHRIST. 05 

The mark of the number of the man was to 
be in their right hands and (or) foreheads : Na- 
poleonti — for Napoleon. The hand — dexter — 
and. the forehead — intellect — were to work for 
Napoleon. 

Further: This Russian Colonel Bonaparte's 
given name is Louis — Latin, Lvdovicvs. Numer- 
ically it stands: L-50, v-5, d-500, v-5, i-1, c-100, 
v-5, s-0— 666. 

Call it the finger of fate, accidental coinci- 
dence or the whisperings of divine prescience, as 
you will, counting from A. D. 532, the date of the 
edict of Justinian, 666 years, we arrive at the 
height of the pope's temporal power under Inno- 
cent III., A. D. 1198. Adding another 666 
years, and we have A. D. 1864, the date of Prince 
Louis Napoleon's birth. Is this historical doub- 
ling of this number of the Wonderful Numberer 
meaningless ? or does it adumbrate the two legs 
on which this terrible image which dominates hu- 
manity stands ? 

Just here, in order to show that nothing is set 
down in this paper through prejudice to the Ro- 
man Catholic, or any other religious body of peo- 
ple, we will give a synopsis of quotations from 
Roman Catholic writers as quoted in a treatise 
written by Dr. Manning, Papal Archbishop of 
London, entitled " Present Crisis of the Holy 
See." These writers hold that the Christian faith 
is to be destroyed, and Rome made the seat of infi- 



66 THE AUTO-CHRIST. 

del idolatry. He further states, on the authority 
of Malvenda, that it is the opinion of Suarez, Me- 
lus, Viegas, Basius, and others equally eminent, 
that Borne in the last times will pass backward to 
her ancient idolatry, power and imperial great- 
ness. She will cast out her pontiff, and apostatize 
from Christianity, persecute the church, shed the 
blood of Christians more abundantly than was 
done in pagan days, and recover her former state 
of abundant wealth, and perhaps eclipse her for- 
mer grandeur under her first rulers. 

But this name Napoleon, which has become a 
synonym for all worldly success, has a strange, 
and perhaps, as considered by some, a fanciful, 
etymological phylum. Read Jeremiah iv. 7: 
" The lion is coming up from his thicket, and the 
destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way." Keep 
this statement of the prophet in mind while re- 
membering that the Greek napos signifies a 
thicket, and leon is a lion — a lion from the thicket. 
Further: The Greek nai, "truly," "verily," 
joined to apoleon, exuresses the idea, " truly a de- 
stroyer;" i. e.. apoleon — I destroyed; second aor- 
ist tense of apollyma, " to destroy." Now prefix 
this name as constructed to the Greek halos meros 
— " the good part;" Italianized, buona parti (e) — 
Greek dative. Again prefix to these the name of 
Louis (Ch)vis: old German, Ohlodwig, i. e.,a. great 
warrior ; modern German, Lud wig ; French, Louis) , 
and we have Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, literally 



THE AUTO-CHRIST. 67 

translated, "A great warrior; truly a destroyer of 
the good part." Of the Gentiles ? Yes. Wholly 
included in the Anglo-Saxon Christian civilization 
of the nineteenth century amongst the Gentiles. 
Placed as Prince Louis Napoleon is at present, 
a trusted colonel in the Russian army, at the cen- 
ter of the above-mentioned arc, he holds the coign 
of vantage, by position and prestige of name, for as- 
suming the military control of all allied forces 
which may cooperate to call down Anglo-Saxon 
domination in the East. As to the methods to ob- 
tain this end by a union of forces, we only have 
to take one glance at the late operations in Bul- 
garia. There the assassination of the incorruptible 
Stambuloff, and the so-called conversion of the 
young Prince Boris to the Greek Church, the re- 
sult of intrigue where force had failed, shows too 
plainly that Russia is slowly but surely fastening 
her giant octopodian arms firmly on every power 
and country likely to be of service in the oncoming 
struggle. 

For the animus of the modus vivendi, we cite 
Rev. xvi. 13, 14, to which the reader will please 
give careful attention before proceeding: "And 
I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of 
the mouth of the dragon, and out of the beast, and 
out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they 
are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which 
go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the 
whole world, to gather them to the battle of that 



68 THE AUTO-CHRIST. 

great day of God Almighty." Three frogs con- 
stituted the ancient coat-of-arms and insignia of 
France under Clovis ; but this device was strangely 
(fatally ?) revived under Louis VII., in the form 
of the fleur de Us with its three petals as his seal ; 
a plant which springs from the marshland, the 
home of the frog. Charles VI. decided that the 
number of these flowers on his banner should be 
three. The flower is borne on a peduncle having 
two long sword-shaped leaves (army and navy?). 

The above naturally directs attention to France 
as a source from which these spirits emanate. We 
give parentage to them as follows: 

From the Beast : Traditions of a royal ancestry 
— Autocracy. 

From the Dragon : Ambition of wealth to rule 
■ — Plutocracy. 

From the False Prophet : Superstition as to the 
man of destiny — Idolatry. 

Here we have the resulting bacteria from a 
medieval leaven fermenting in the stagnant pool? 
of a decaying Orientalism. 

Inspired by this trinity of spirits, for the end 
and purposes set forth in the last Scriptural ref- 
erence, our fancied Napoleonic image, striding 
Italy, the Adriatic Sea and European Turkey, sud- 
denly gathering his terrible force, moved by the 
occult energies above shown, steps its right foot 
with mighty tread from Rome, southeast to the 
plain of Esdraelon, and as rapidly brings the left 



THE AUTO-CHRIST. 69 

foot from Constantinople, placing them heel to 
heel, toes out, and awfully stands at attention. 
Here Barak, in the forenoon of Semitic history, 
stood to judge Israel, and at the beginning of the 
present century iNapoleon I. stood to judge the 
world. 

Standing now at the cock-crowing hour of morn 
of the orthodox sabbatic thousand years of the 
world's history, in the wee sma' hours of the twen- 
tieth century, as the morning star of the grander 
ages rises to view, fancy wrests the prophetic wand 
from the hand of General Upton and with it points 
to Mt. Tabor on the northeastern bonier of Esdra- 
elon. Stretching on either hand to the west and 
eastward are the hosts gathered by the froglike 
spirits; and on the mountain itself, with glass 
poised, looking toward the Zion of Jewish song, 
looms he of the tinsel-covered, three-cornered hat 
—the flower of three petals; autocracy, plutoc- 
racy, idolatry; crook, cross and crescent- — yet in- 
fidelic and mighty commander of conservative 
armies which hope to crash Saxon civilization from 
the earth. But John Bull and Brother Jonathan, 
not cousins, but brothers — Ephraim and Manas- 
seh — both sons of Joseph — are there before him. 
Like a monstrous saber laid flat on the ground 
with the hilt near the mouth of the Kishon, blade 
covering the river bordering the curve of the Car- 
,- mel range, and point resting on Gilboa, forming 
helmet, gorget, cuirass, cuish and greave for the 



70 THE AUTO-CITRIST. 

hope of humanity, stand the devoted hosts to do 
battle for the sacred dogma that " all just powers 
of government are derived from the consent of 
the governed." 

The morning sun of the twentieth century 
gilds the fated plain that has, ever and anon, 
been made drunken with the blood of bygone ages. 
The long roll is beaten, and to the music of the 
thunders of Krupp and the babbling of Gatling 
the opposing forces confront each other as the 
breath of hell taints the air which once throbbed 
for joy at the twang of Israel's harp. The bugles 
sound the charge, and, perhaps, high above all are 
heard the notes of that gold trumpet with the 
Hebrew inscription found in the Danish farmer's 
field and now in the museum at Copenhagen. 
Earth reels, and there comes that awful shock in 
which nations are shivered, splintered and ground 
to dust. And the Napoleon dynasty is crushed 
forever. 

Pale, bleeding, with many wounds, but yet 
alive, the Saxon rises from the field of death and 
carnage and gazes on a world redeemed. Start- 
ing from the old site where the hairy Tishbite 
in days of yore taunted the prophets of Baal, and 
directed the battle of the gods on Carmel, a lone 
courier, whose features bespeak him a brother of 
Moses, rides southward as Sheridan rode to Win- 
chester. On, on, passing Ramoth, Mt, Ebal, Ja 
cob's Well, Shiloh, Gilgal, Bethel, Gibeon, Mizpeh, 



THE AUTO-CHBIST. 71 

fifty or more miles without halt or slack, he reins 
his exhausted steed at Salem's gate, and calls to 
Judah's praying daughters: "'Arise! Shine! for 
thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is 
risen upon thee.' The crescent has gone down in 
blood, and the Turk shall rule us no more for- 
ever." The threnody of despair is changed to a 
rhapsody of glory, and the air, throbbing with 
joy through Lebanon's cedar boughs, wafts the 
notes of a song nineteen hundred years old: 
b Peace on earth, good will to men." It is the 
song of Israel's handmaidens. 



READING FOR THE EVENING 
SERVICE. 

" Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out 
without hands, which smote the image upon its 
feet that were of iron and clay, and broke them 
to pieces. Then was the iron and the clay, the 
brass, the silver, and the gold broken to pieces to- 
gether, and became like the chaff of the summer 
threshing-floors; and the wind carried them away, 
that no place was found for them; and the stone 
that smote the image became a great mountain, and 
filled the whole earth" (Dan. ii. 34, 35). 



POST-LUDIUM. 

Hail ! Columbia. 
Rule ! Britannia. 



POST-SCRIPTUM 

Sonic believe the name Saxon to be derived 
from the Latin saxum — a rock; stone. See any 
dictionary for words commencing with " sax." 
If this conjectured derivation be correct, will it 
suggest the idea that the Saxons constitute the 
" stone that was cut out without hands, which 
smote the image on its feet " ? Credat qui vult. 



THE AUTO-CHRIST. ?3 

" And he shall judge among the nations, and 
shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their 
swords into plowshares, and their spears into prun- 
ingdiooks; nation shall not lift up sword against 
nation, neither shall they learn war any more'' 
(Isa. ii. 4). 



ADDENDA. 

THE OCEAN IS OURS. 
This poem was written by Hon. Bellamy Storer, United- 
States Minister to Belgium, under the inspiration of a para- 
graph in an article published in the Paris Temps, on the de- 
struction of the Spanish fleet off Santiago, and was sent to 
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, who has kindly consented to its 
publication in Harper's Weekly. The following is a translation 
of the paragraph in question: 

" If it is true that all the Spanish fleet has been destroyed 
except a single ship, it is a disaster almost equal to that of 
the Grand Armada. Once more the sea has beti'ayed Spain to 
the profit of that Anglo-Saxon race which appears decidedly, 
under whatever flag it fights— under the stars and stripes, or 
under the union jack — to have all the favors of that element." 
—The Editor. 

Comes the roar of the ship guns— 
The English-speaking ship guns- 
Telling the " Latin race," frantic and eld, 
Telling all Russia, gigantic and young. 
Telling the feudal boy-Kaiser romantic, 
What the Spanish Armada by Howard was tola; 
What the winds to the salt sea for ages have sung. 
Telling the powers; 
" Tne ocean is ours. 
Together we pull, 
Nelson and Farragut, 
Rodney and Hull." 
O'er the Pacific 

Comes the roar of the ship guns — 
The English-speaking ship guns- 
Singeing the beard of the Don at Manila 
As Drake did at Cadiz three centuries gone. 
The Orient shakes at the thunder terrific, 
Drake's message from Dewey: " We sank their flotilla 
In spite of their forts! As you did, we've done! 
'•The ocean is ours, 
The ocean is ours. 
Together we pull, 
Nelson and Farragut, 
Rodney and Hull." — Harper's Weekly. 



JEC 8 1899 



